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School Board Budget, Membership Questionnaire CCSI Position on School Board Candidates, CCSI constitution, candidates for School Board Nominating Convention

Ballot Advocating Election of Lee Potter to County Board, School Bonds, School Election date in November

Need for change to Virginia law in selection of School Board Members, background information of individuals and civic groups supporting efforts

Establishment of Kindergartens, other programs

Problems of Negro Citizens in Arlington, segregation in restaurants, movies, playgrounds, segregated recreation programs, hospitals, rental properties, job hiring, Arlington County Human Relations Council

Copy of UPI article regarding upcoming desegregation of Arlington and other Virginia schools on February 1, 1959. 2 pages

Acts of the 1956 Extra Session of the Virginia General Assembly, including act "to provide no child shall be required to attend integrated schools" and other race related legislation. 27 pages

Speech by Delegate Kathryn H. Stone to the House of Delegates, General Assembly of Virginia, December 2, 1955, voicing her person conviction that "the attitude of defiance of the Supreme Court's decision" is the wrong way to seek a solution to…

Arlington County Per Pupil Expenditure

Speech by Delegate Kathryn H. Stone to the House of Delegates, General Assembly of Virginia, December 2, 1955, voicing her person conviction that "the attitude of defiance of the Supreme Court's decision" is the wrong way to seek a solution to…

Summary of Legislation Sponsored by the Fairfax Citizens' Council and How it Will Prevent Integration in Public Schools

Draft of school board reply to January referendum to amend the Constitution of Virginia and general comments on Gray Report. 3 pages

Remarks of Delegate Robert Whitehead of Nelson County before the House of Delegates of Virginia on December 1, 1955 regarding school desegregation issues. 9 pages

Timeline of court cases involving desegregation 1956-1958, 6 pages

Remarks of Edmund D. Campbell Before General Assembly of Virginia At Public Hearing on Bill Proposed by Governor Thomas B. Stanley To Withhold State Tax Funds from Counties or Cities which permit any Integration of Pupils In Public Schools, September…

Excerpts from book, "Recollections and Letters of General Robert E. Lee" concerning the importance of educating youth .

Statement of Delegate Robert Whitehead of Nelson County. Whitehead declares "that under existing law no board of supervisors, by an attempt to withhold funds, has the power to cause the public schools in its county to close." 2 pages

Statement of Robert Whitehead of Nelson County to Associated Press, December 17, 1955 re decision of Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals that certain legislation passed by the General Assembly of Virginia re education in private institutions is…

Excerpts from address of Delegate Robert Whitehead made before Charlottesville Chapter of University Women, December 14, 1955. discussing reasons, pros and cons, for calling for a Constitutional Convention. 4 pages

Booklet presenting a conservative, gradualist case for integrating public schools in the South and the need for the Christian Church to intervene in problems of juvenile delinquency. 17 pages